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As the mobile landscape continues to evolve, it is becoming increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs to grow their apps and retain their users. The market is hyper-competitive and oversaturated, and most people only use the apps they really need. According to Quettra, the average mobile app loses 77 percent of its daily active users within the first … Continue reading 8 Secrets to Growth and Retention for Your App

Google’s announcements during their annual I/O developer conference demonstrate the company is beginning to shift the focus away from traditional download-and-install apps. Downloading, installing, logging in or setting up an account, and navigating the app to find the content we’re looking for is a process many of us have gone through for decades. When you … Continue reading Google is shifting the focus away from traditional apps

Hack Design is a design course taught by some of the world’s most prominent designers. This free resource teaches you the techniques and tools of good design through playing with design puzzles and games. The lessons are delivered to your email inbox each week, with links to articles, tutorials, and cheat sheets as well as … Continue reading Hack Design Delivers Design Lessons to Your Inbox Each Week

Interested in creating websites and apps? You can learn HTML5, the standard language of the web, for free with this course from W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium), which developed HTML5. The course runs six weeks starting in June, but you can sign up now at edX. You’ll learn the new features introduced in HTML5 … Continue reading Learn HTML5 from the W3C with This Free Course

There are plenty of resources for learning to code, but none is better than a real person who can explain concepts to you, brainstorm logic with you, and answer questions for you. This is why, whether you’re an experienced programmer or a complete beginner, you should get a coding buddy. Coding with someone else will … Continue reading Find a Coding Buddy to Make Learning Easier and More Fun

It’s never easy to stand out from the crowd. After all, there are probably over a thousand sites in your industry, and while youknow your product or service has the potential to be at the forefront, getting there probably seems like an exhausting, labor-intensive (and potentially very expensive) venture. Related: How to Attract Visitors to Your Site However, … Continue reading 5 Easy Ways to Get Users to Your Website

Updating your website involves more than just rearranging words and pictures on the homepage. Changing your website involves implementing new technology behind the scenes, eliminating dot-com domains and using research to optimize pages to capture your audience’s attention. Just think about your website two, five, 10 years ago. Chances are, it looked quite a bit … Continue reading 4 Ways Your Website Should Change Over the Next 5 Years

Starting a venture and developing your product or service requires working quickly and efficiently. You need to ensure your startup offers value in terms of innovation, quality and convenience, even though you have limited resources and may be racing against the competition to be first to market. So, how do you strike the perfect balance? It’s up to … Continue reading These 25 Successful Startups Were Built With Outsourced Development